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To: mojito
First, a look at the military situation. Most historians agree that the British army was not ready for war with Germany in September 1938. If war had broken out over the Czechoslovak crisis, Britain would only have been able to send two divisions to the continent—and ill-equipped divisions, at that. Between 1919 and March 1932, Britain had based its military planning on a “10-year rule,” which assumed Britain would face no major war in the next decade. Rearmament only began in 1934—and only on a limited basis.

So, this a$$hole wants to claim Chamberlain was "right" to bow down to Hitler, because Britain's military was underprepared? But, WHO was it that made sure Britain's military was weak? Why, Neville Chamberlain and his lib-tard friends, that's who.

8 posted on 10/01/2013 9:42:46 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: WayneS

—First, a look at the military situation. Most historians agree that the British army was not ready for war with Germany in September 1938.—

This guy forgets that the Brits would have relied on the French Army to fight the Germans in 1938. They had the largest army on the continent at the time, if memory serves.


24 posted on 10/01/2013 12:42:34 PM PDT by JoeTheGeorgian
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To: WayneS
But, WHO was it that made sure Britain's military was weak? Why, Neville Chamberlain and his lib-tard friends, that's who.

This was the depression, when money was scarce.

Europe had disarmed itself after WWI. It wasn't really an ideological thing in the 1920s. Everybody was sick of war and nobody in the democracies wanted to prepare for another European war.

After Hitler took power, British rearmament had begun under Chamberlain, but it took time to get up to speed.

31 posted on 10/01/2013 2:15:45 PM PDT by x
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